Spoken news queries over the world wide web

Abstract

In this paper we present our work in expanding the View4You system developed at the Interactive Systems Laboratories (ISL). The View4You system allows the user the retrieval of automatically found news clips from recorded German broadcast news by natural spoken queries. While modular in design, so far, the architecture has required the components to at least run in a common file space. By utilizing Flash technology we turned this single machine setup into a distributed set-up that gives us access to our news database over the World Wide Web. The client side of our architecture only requires a web browser with Flash extension in order to record and send the speech of the queries to the servers and in order to display the retrieved news clips. Our future work will focus on turning the monolingual German system into a multilingual system that provides cross-lingual access and retrieval in multiple languages.